primitive religion
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"Animal spirits" sounds like the latest show on the Discovery Channel or the basis of a primitive religion.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2012
At Michigan, for example, primitive religion is taught in anthropology classes, the background of the Bible in the Near Eastern studies program.
From Time Magazine Archive
They have made their work literature rather than science, and told us of the Irish peasantry rather than of the primitive religion of mankind, or whatever else the folk-lorists are on the gad after.
From Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
With this local nature-worship the world was, in early times, thickly overspread; and manifold survivals of it are still to be found even in lands where the primitive religion has been longest superseded.
From History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems by Menzies, Allan
One might as well look for the first germs of religion, for primitive religion strictly so called, in Hymns Ancient and Modern as in the Vedas.
From Custom and Myth New Edition by Lang, Andrew
